Month: June 2022
June 19, 2022
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Pride events targeted in surge of anti-LGBTQ threats, violence
“The surge in right-wing hate-mongering against LGBTQ people is spilling into violence, with high-profile attacks this month casting fear over Pride celebrations…”
June 18, 2022
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The Pivot to Web3 Is Going to Get People Hurt
“It can feel at times as if the entire world is pivoting into Web3, and the question is why. There are, suddenly, Web3 media companies , Web3 advertising firms ,…”
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Ottessa Moshfegh Is Praying for Us
“Book critic at New York . Author of Females . Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her middle name is really Long. Art:…”
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“Twenty-seven angel wood cutouts are set up on hillside in memory to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 16, 2012. Emmanuel…”
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“As a fiction writer who teaches, I often speak about what I love in fiction, what to me makes it powerful and engaging. This is a version of a talk I have been…”
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Is Human Intelligence Simple? Part 1: Evolution and Archaeology
“If you zoom way out and look at the history of life on Earth, humans evolved incredibly recently. The Hominidae — the family that includes orangutans,…”
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America’s Coming Age of Instability
“When Joe Biden was sworn in as president a year ago today, many Americans breathed a heavy sigh of relief. President Donald Trump had tried to steal the…”
June 17, 2022
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Opinion | Sometimes ‘Proper’ Speech Isn’t Correct Speech
“Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Sometimes ‘Proper’ Speech Isn’t Correct Speech June 17, 2022, 3:50 p.m. ET Send any friend a story As a subscriber,…”
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““the twitter logo in a hurricane, digital art,” as interpreted by OpenAI’s DALL-E Programming note: With this, I’ll be taking my annual summer break. If…”
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Save the Last Dance: The Battle to Ban Father-Daughter Dances
“Welcome to The Daddy Issue, our very fatherly tip of the cap to the father figures in our lives as well as all the fatherly stuff they can’t help but do — from…”
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The U.S. Economy Is Confusing Everybody—Including the Federal Reserve
“As somebody who’s paid to tell stories about the economy, I always find it satisfying to assemble data points to produce a compelling pointillist picture about…”
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Sure, I Guess I’ll Go See Jurassic Marvel Gun Barbie World 9
“Olive Burd / BuzzFeed News This week, the internet was agog in tongue emojis and admiration as the first photos of the upcoming Barbie movie, directed by Greta…”
June 16, 2022
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“When I was growing up in the suburbs, I was bothered by all the construction going on in the big city nearby (New York). Whenever I visited, there were detours,…”
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Opinion | Beware the Ruinous Optimism of Democratic Leaders
“Jamelle Bouie Beware the Ruinous Optimism of Democratic Leaders June 14, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Desiree Rios for The New York Times Send any friend a…”
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The myth of trustlessness | New_ Public Magazine
“The myth of trustlessness | New_ Public Magazine”
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Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O.
“Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women…”
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Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say
“The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme…”
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When should a creator throw in the towel?
“Image licensed from Getty Images Welcome! I’m Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: Let’s jump…”
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Forget Gold, Stock and Bonds. Invest in Legos
“Some of us still have a few old Lego sets in the garage that we just don’t have the heart to throw away. And as it turns out, maybe we shouldn’t. In fact, Legos…”
June 15, 2022
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Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’
“As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change , the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts…”
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Opinion | The ugly truth about the right-wing grift machine has been revealed
“In addition to building a damning case that Donald Trump and his co-conspirators hatched a premeditated scheme to steal a presidential election they knew he’d…”
June 14, 2022
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Melanie Lynskey Felt Like a Hollywood Misfit
“Photo: Art Streiber. Styling by Misha Rudolph. Hair by Richard Collins. Makeup by Stephen Sollitto for tmg-LA. Melanie Lynskey was 15 when the producer and…”
June 13, 2022
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“From: Robin Sloan To: the lab Sent: June 2022 Specifying Spring ‘83 Hello! I have got to get this out of my HEAD! What follows is a narrative description of…”
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Opinion | The State of Immunity
“Guest Essay The State of Immunity June 13, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Josie Norton Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give…”
June 12, 2022
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Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
“Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. Due to technical limitations the…”
June 11, 2022
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The Moral Desolation of the GOP
“Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public…”
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The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge
“Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs, are generic-looking office parks that hide secret government installations in plain…”
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“The narrative has been incubating for many years, but in recent days we are witnessing some extraordinary progress in treating and monitoring cancer. The…”
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
“SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to…”
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“According to Microsoft, people have 250% more meetings every day than they did before the pandemic , a statistic that makes sense and deeply sucks. Derek…”